Family want answers after Kansas City hit-and-run
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One Kansas City area family wants to know who could be so cruel.
Their teenager is now using a wheelchair to get around. They say its the result of a hit and run crash from Friday night, where their daughter was hit by an oncoming car, but the driver didn’t stick around.
Jalyah Robinson, 16, and her family realize she’s lucky to be alive. The Olathe, Kansas native spent three nights in a metro hospital after that crash left her with two broken bones in her right leg. Some of Robinson’s teeth were also knocked out in the incident.
“I didn’t feel anything at the time until I started to look around,” Robinson said on Tuesday.
Robinson and two friends were at an event space at 80th and Troost Avenue late Friday night for a party,. The teenagers say they were crossing the street to visit a gas station when a driver hit her and refused to stop. People from the party came outside and waited with her for the ambulance.
“Whoever did it, at least take accountability. I could have lost my life, or they could have killed me right then and there. They wouldn’t have known because they drove off,” Robinson told FOX4.
“I feel terror for her. If it were me, I’d never want to get out of my bed again,” Amiyah Johnson, one of the kids who accompanied Robinson, said.
Robinson told Kansas City police officers the car was a dark-colored Chevrolet Cruze with tinted windows. She said the car had two people inside, but nobody caught the license tag. People in that neighborhood complained to FOX4 about reckless drivers being a common sight there.
“Somebody there saw something. There was a man who came and stayed with my daughter until paramedics got there. If it’s you, please come forward, I want to thank you for taking care of my baby,” Melissa Clark, Robinson’s mother, said.
Robinson and her family members said it will take three months for her broken leg to heal. A KCPD spokesperson said the case is still being investigated. If you have information to share, please call KCPD’s south patrol unit at (8160 234-5550.
The family has started this GoFundMe account to help pay for medical expenses, which are adding up quickly.
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